Is the Realm of Life separate from the Realm of Imagination (Thought)? - Focusing on K. Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête - (삶의 영토는 상상(사유)의 영토와 분리되는가? -K. 다우드의 『뫼르소, 살인사건』을 중심으로-)

PARK, Tchi Wan (박치완)

doi:10.33639/ptc.2023..42.007

Is the Realm of Life separate from the Realm of Imagination (Thought)? - Focusing on K. Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête -

PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
2023, (42), pp.146~174
DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..42.007
Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
Received : May 20, 2023
Accepted : June 30, 2023
Published : June 30, 2023

PARK, Tchi Wan ¹

¹한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

80 years have passed since The Stranger was published. It has been 60 years since Algeria gained independence from France. Nonetheless, the concept of "Algerianity" still haunts contemporary Algerian writers like a ghost. The publication of K. Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête can be considered a kind of "literary event" that summoned Camus and his novel, The Stranger, back into the "Algerianity" again. Today, Algerians are not willing to discuss Camus' The Stranger. The reason is that Algerians do not treat The Stranger solely as a literary work, but rather focus on Camus' sociocultural misunderstanding of "Algeria" and "Arabs" as depicted in The Stranger. In this regard, Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête is a cross-examination of Meursault, the protagonist of Camus's The Stranger, while also providing a cross-examination of the writer Camus. By cross-examining Meursault and Camus simultaneously, Daoud ultimately urges to readers to call the "nameless Arab" innocently murdered in The Stranger as Moussa. In this respect, Moussa is not an “individual” but also represents the “cultural community of Algeria”. Meursault, contre-enquête has research value in that it reminds us that the question of individual existence and identity is closely linked to a community rooted in locality. Meursault, contre-enquête is a group-portrait of contemporary Algerians.

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A. Camus, The Stranger, K. Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Territoriality, Socio-cultural Identity, Cultural Community

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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